This Date in History (Other Than Hallow e'en)

1926: Harry Houdini dies in Detroit from the effects of a ruptured appendix. 1938: A day after his "War of the Worlds" radio adaptation scared the crap out of thousands, Orson Welles said he was sorry, but couldn't believe what a bunch of gullible fucking saps Americans are. (Not an exact quote.) 1941: The destroyer U. S. S. Reuben James was torpedoed off Iceland by a Kraut U-Boat, killing some 100 American sailors. This over a month before the United Snakes was pulled into WWII (The Big One) by the Nipponese. 1984: Indira Gandhi assassinated by two Sikh security guards.